{"id":308220,"date":"2026-02-20T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308220\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:28:09","slug":"thunderstorm-sweeps-in-over-southwest-ireland-on-friday-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308220\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorm sweeps in over southwest Ireland on Friday \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Thundery downpours are expected in four counties with potential impacts of spot flooding, lightning damage and difficult travelling conditions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/met-eireann\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/met-eireann\/\">Met \u00c9ireann<\/a> yellow thunderstorm warning was in place for counties Clare, Kerry, Limerick and Galway until 11am on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">After the seemingly routine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/environment\/2026\/02\/19\/weather-warnings-coming-to-an-end-but-met-eireann-forecasts-more-rain\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/environment\/2026\/02\/19\/weather-warnings-coming-to-an-end-but-met-eireann-forecasts-more-rain\/\">rainfall <\/a><a href=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"\">warnings<\/a> of recent days, Met \u00c9ireann said the weekend will see occasional sunny spells \u2013 although these will be punctuated by showers and even more persistent rain at times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There are no further rainfall warnings in place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Met \u00c9ireann has, however, issued a status yellow warning for gale force winds reaching up to force 8 along the entire west coast from 2am to 7am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Highest temperatures on Friday are expected to range between 9 and 13 degrees with southwest winds that will occasionally be strong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Friday night is expected to remain cloudy with outbreaks of rain and drizzle but drier conditions will develop overnight in the south. Met \u00c9ireann said it would be a windy and mild night with lowest temperatures of 6 to 10 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/environment\/2026\/02\/05\/why-is-it-so-wet-ireland-is-collateral-damage-in-the-battleground-between-weather-systems\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why is it raining so much? Persistent rain in Ireland driven by an unusual combination of eventsOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Saturday is expected to be another cloudy day with further outbreaks of rain, dying away later in the evening. Highest temperatures are expected to be in the region of 10 to 13 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sunday is forecast to begin windy with scattered showers feeding in from the west. Highest temperatures for the day are expected to range from 9 to 12 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Again, however, the national outlook is for continuing unsettled conditions with spells of wet and windy weather. It is expected to be milder than average temperatures for the time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thundery downpours are expected in four counties with potential impacts of spot flooding, lightning damage and difficult travelling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,1191,43,18335,15950],"class_list":["post-308220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-met-eireann","tag-news","tag-weather-events","tag-weather-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}